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AI On Every Machine: The LLM You Probably Didn’t Want

It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as …read more

Retrotechtacular: Julius Sumner Miller Breaks Lamps With Magnets

If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in reality, physics professor [Julius Sumner Miller]. He also had his own show, …read more

How Giant Tanks Of Fluid Could Help Support The Power Grid

If you’ve been paying any attention to the renewable energy space, you’ll know that generation isn’t really the problem anymore. Solar panels are cheap, and wind turbines are everywhere. The …read more

Strange Ways To Make Cold

Making stuff cool and keeping it that way has been a pretty essential part of human civilization for thousands of years, with only in the past few hundred years man-made …read more

Why Leaded Fuel Is Still A Thing

Leaded fuel is considered one of the greatest environmental failures in modern human history. Adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knock in internal combustion engines, which was widely considered a …read more

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  • This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

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    By Mike Kershaw | May 8, 2026

    After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a …read more

  • The ESP8266 Gets An OS, And It’s Familiar

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    By Jenny List | May 8, 2026

    A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for the Arduino Uno. It’s a neat idea, so it’s hardly …read more

  • An Improved Robot Dog For Senior Design

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    By Aaron Beckendorf | May 8, 2026

    [Aaed Musa] has been building robot dogs for a long time now, so it was only natural that he would make one for the senior design project of his mechanical …read more

  • The Montgomery Ward Gasoline-Powered Clothes Iron

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    By Maya Posch | May 7, 2026

    Before the advent of electricity in the home made electrically-heated clothes irons a possibility, ironing was a cumbersome process, with self-heated irons being an arguable improvement over solid (so-called sad) …read more

  • An LLM From “Scratch”

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    By Al Williams | May 7, 2026

    Reading a book about bowling is not the same as actually bowling. If that resonates with you and you want to learn more about large language models, check out the …read more

  • How To Avoid Failed Screw Holes In 3D Printed Parts

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    By Donald Papp | May 7, 2026

    Screws are useful fasteners for 3D prints, but the effectiveness of a screw (not to mention the ease or hassle of insertion) depends on the hole itself. This comprehensive guide …read more

  • 3D Printed Train Whistles Sound Out At Full Scale

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    By Tyler August | May 7, 2026

    The age of steam is long gone, but there are few railfans who don’t have a soft spot for the old rolling kettles. So you’d best believe when [AeroKoi] talks …read more

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